Leviathan Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Leviathan Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobbes define injustice of an action?
(a) a lawsuit
(b) premeditation
(c) injury
(d) accidents

2. Which two forms of government need not worry about succession?
(a) neither a monarchy nor an anarchy
(b) neither a democracy nor an aristocracy
(c) neither a republic nor a dictatorship
(d) neither a communist nor an empire

3. What does Hobbes accept when peace is impossible?
(a) diplomacy
(b) war
(c) surrender
(d) hiding

4. What results are there when an actor makes a contract?
(a) The contract is invalid.
(b) The contract must be approved.
(c) The author is not bound to it.
(d) The author is also bound.

5. What type of book is LEVIATHAN?
(a) A science fiction book
(b) A book of political philosophy
(c) A book about large fish
(d) A book about comparative religion

6. Why does Hobbes contend that no sovereign can do wrong to anyone under his authority?
(a) The sovereign is led by God.
(b) They entered into the contract to create the sovereign.
(c) The sovereign is exempt from making mistakes.
(d) There is divine Right of Kings.

7. What is Hobbes' idea about ownership of commodities in a commonwealth?
(a) All commodities naturally belong to the sovereign.
(b) Nobody owns commodities in a commonwealth.
(c) People own what they work for.
(d) Only native commodities belong to the sovereign.

8. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
(a) money and gifts
(b) power and control
(c) counsel and command
(d) charisma and intelligence

9. When many people first get together, what are they called?
(a) A hodge podge
(b) A gaggle
(c) A mob
(d) A multitude

10. How does Hobbes classify discourse that cannot be proven?
(a) attitudes
(b) scientific
(c) opinion
(d) theorems

11. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?
(a) justice
(b) security
(c) habitation
(d) the inevitability of death

12. What kind of idea does Hobbes classify as good wit?
(a) one open to argument and debate
(b) one that produces only good results
(c) one that everyone can agree to
(d) one so unique that nobody else would have thought of it

13. Why do people want to make a covenant and select sovereigns?
(a) to rid themselves of political uneasiness
(b) to be like the other commonweaths around them
(c) to prevent having to relinquish freedoms
(d) to allow for orderly disagreement

14. What do counsels for the aristocracy generally do?
(a) Serve no useful purpose
(b) Offer plans for governing change
(c) Last for days or even months
(d) Excite the multitude to create change

15. What does Hobbes say are the three types of commonwealth?
(a) dictatorships, republics and anarchies
(b) high, low and mediocre
(c) common, formal and independent
(d) monarchies, democracies and aristocracies

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hobbes' only conditionality regarding all people being created equal?

2. What are examples of Hobbes' involuntary motions?

3. Why does Hobbes insist that the commonwealth is born out of human politics?

4. To be sure one has found reason, what is necessary?

5. What does Hobbes call the blood flow of a commonwealth?

(see the answer keys)

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